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Dr. Sarah Naramore
Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. History of Science; University of Notre Dame
- A.B. History and Biology; Lafayette College
Courses Taught
- 33155 U.S. History to 1877
- 33156 U.S. History since 1877
- 33522 The American Colonies
Academic Interest
I am a historian of medicine and the early American republic interested in the intersections of science, medicine, and politics. My current book project Medical Independence: How Benjamin Rush Created American Medicine, 1769-1813 explores the way in which Benjamin Rush and his students promoted medical theories they believed were best suited to the new republic. In doing so Rush not only founded a distinctly American medical profession but used his position an expertise to argue for a range of political and social reforms in the name of a healthy republic. In short, this book argues that Rush’s work in science and medicine played a foundational role in the American transition from colony to nation and the social structures that characterized it in the nineteenth century.
Scholarly Activity
Selected Publications:
Selected Recent Presentations:
- “our part of the country being very sickly”: Creating American Medicine Through Patient Correspondence,” Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 6, 2020
- "Same Story, Different Setting: Using Goiter to Understand Calls for American Science at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century," History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 24, 2019
- “Who You Know: How Social and Educational Networks fostered Professional Identity Among American Doctors, 1780-1815,” American Philosophical Society, "Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook," Philadelphia, PA, June 7, 2019
- "The Medical Network: Social Ties and Expertise in American Medicine, 1780-1820," American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, April 27, 2019
- “Constant Change: Culture, Health, and Race in the Revolutionary United States,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, November 11, 2017
Other Professional Experiences
Selected Fellowships and Honors:
- Research Fellowship, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (declined) (2018)
- Sloan Prize for an outstanding graduate student in the Notre Dame History and Philosophy of Science program (2018)
- Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia (2017)
- Short-Term Fellowship, Philadelphia Area Consortium for the History of Science (now Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine) (2014-15)
- Travel Grant, F.C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (2014)
Professional Organization Membership:
- The History of Science Society
- American Association for the History of Medicine
- The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science